Too Late to Call an Ambulance · Psychonaut 4

177 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

118 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

177

LENGTH

5:58

DIFFICULTY

57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-43, snare through bars 44-74, silence through bars 75-76, toms through bars 77-78, silence through bars 79-83 and toms through bars 84-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44-46 and 48-50, and 18 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x--x-x-x-xx-|

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 38 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Bars 22-43 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 72-84 -- 2 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 88-99 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.